Rap Quotes - Page 9

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious Thug ass niggaz that love to bust, it's strange to us Y'all niggaz be scramblin, gamblin Up in restaraunts with mandolins, and violins We just sittin here tryin to win, tryin not to sin High off weed and lots of gin So much smoke need oxygen, steadily countin them Benjamins

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Wu-Tang is for the children.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth. Some call that a problem, but I call it a gift.

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all, I'm the best.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.